Links: Look who’s coming to Riverdale!

At Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Calvin Reid takes a look at Lerner’s Graphic Universe line, which has built up from a handful of graphic novels in 2006 to a robust line that includes some of the best kids’ comics around. If you associate Lerner with stodgy educational children’s books, take another look; graphic novels like Guinea Pig: Pet Shop Private Eye, The Elsewhere Chronicles, and Nola’s World, as well as their excellent myths-and-legends series, really stand alone as great books in their own right.

President Barack Obama and former Alaska governor (and vice-presidential candidate) Sarah Palin are heading to Riverdale for a showdown in the latest issue of Archie.

This is great news: Mark Andrew Smith and Matthew Weldon are putting the first volume of their fantasy-adventure tale The New Brighton Archeological Society online for free. The first 22 pages are up now, and the book will continue to be serialized for the next year.

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

About Good Comics For Kids

We are a group of librarians, parents, and writers--and most of us wear at least two of those hats--who started writing about kids' comics in 2008 because, well, nobody else was. We like everything from Literary Graphic Novels to blatantly commercial (but fun!) licensed properties. And we don't lump all ages together; we're smart enough to know that a three-year-old has different abilities and interests than a 13-year-old.

Our goal is to cover kids' comics (for readers from birth to age 16) with both breadth and depth, through a mix of news, reviews, interviews, and previews, and to be both accessible to casual readers and interesting enough for serious fans.